suspect
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The report followed revelations of two affairs, including one with a woman U.S. officials suspect of working with Chinese intelligence, the Journal reported.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026
Polish media has reported the suspect had a firearms permit and may have obtained the weapons from his family home.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
PARIS—The U.S. and France suspect Iran is responsible for the cyberattack on European supermarket refrigerators and freezers that caused tens of millions of dollars of damage in spoiled food and equipment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
US officials suspect Megaspeed of helping smuggle restricted chips into China and the Justice Department has taken over a federal investigation into the company.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
“Okay. So then Adam knew everyone would suspect him right away, since he’s bad news....”
From "Trouble at the Arcade (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #1)" by Franklin W. Dixon
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The cars of accused drivers are now impounded until the trial, even when the suspects have no previous criminal record.
From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026
There is no hard evidence of any enduring romantic attachment, and Ms. Lee suspects Brookner’s career may have been held back by misogynistic male superiors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
He said he suspects many younger investors — particularly millennials and members of Generation Z — were likely doing the same.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
Police are searching for three teenage suspects who fled the scene, captured on surveillance footage.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Since he suspects we’re hiding here, he makes a pointy of coming during lunchtime, when the warehouse employees are out.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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In Shurugwi, it may be too late for any protection afforded by the new act while some locals suspected the mining company benefited from its association with Collins Mnangagwa.
From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026
Huang is reportedly losing the confidence of Nvidia’s board after he was reported to have engaged in alleged affairs with a suspected Chinese spy and an Nvidia executive who reports to him.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026
Even still, Huang has been unable to head off a deepening scandal involving an affair with a suspected Chinese intelligence source that has now prompted Nvidia’s board to make preparations for his ouster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
An Indian court has ordered an investigation into allegations that a public library in the southern state of Tamil Nadu bought hundreds of books suspected of being generated using AI.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
Penelope had often suspected that he was watching her and the children.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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She’s engaging in a piece of phantasmagoric performance art with two raging megalomaniacs, suspecting humanity buried beneath their easygoing subterfuge.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026
He’d been stunned by his star’s nearly centurylong sentence and came away from a review of the case suspecting that Walters may have been wrongfully convicted.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
“They must be suspecting me of defending Articles 29 and 23 of the Russian Constitution—which guarantee freedom of speech and the right to private correspondence,” he wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Still, it’s worth noting that Sink’s role has been the subject of much speculation, with fans suspecting she would play Marvel-verse X-Men telekinetic and telepath Jean Grey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
But he dropped his eyes, suspecting a flaw in his argument.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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